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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the wood badge in Foraging.

For this BB, you will forage garden 1 mile of trail side!


(source: Pinterest.com)

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
  - 1 mile of trail side forage gardening
  - 1 living plant per 10 feet of trail on average (more than 500 plants total)
  - Within 20 feet of the trail
  - At least six different species
  - Can be roadside, for rarely used dirt roads
  - The mile can be spread out between multiple stretches of trail
  - Harvest 1000 calories each from six different species (can be from existing plants along the mile)
  - Harvest at least 10,000 calories total (can go towards the forage 200,000 calorie BB)

To document your completion of the BB, provide proof of the following:
  - Video of trail when introducing seed balls or planting, and a general idea of what edibles were there to start
  - Video of trail for several harvests and showing what plants made it
  - Show at least 100 fruit trees at least four inches tall
  - Show the weight of food harvested and describe the calories each represents

Clarifications:
- Apples from a neighbor don’t count here.  
- Apples from a homestead that has been abandoned for at least five years does count.  
- Apples oddly growing in a place where there has never been any cultivation counts too (probably a discarded apple core led to the tree).  
- Apples that are the result of guerilla gardening do count.
 
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